(A/N: THERE'S A FEW "ParaNorman" REFERENCES IN THIS CHAPTER! ALL CREDIT GOES TO THE MAKERS OF THAT MOVIE!)

VII

"JAMIE?!" Jack asked in complete shock. How could this happen? Did Jamie die while they were fighting-off Gwen? No! He didn't! He couldn't! It must've been something else! The more Jack was thinking about it, the more he'd just stared at his newly transformed little brother. He was wearing a light blue hoodie, with some frost on it; also, he had dark blue pants on with no shoes as well. His hair was now white like Jack's, and his eyes were now a rich shade of blue.

Jamie turns his head to look at the others, "Hey," he'd said.

Gwen fires a rod of dark fire towards him, making Jamie fall down with pain. The others quickly turns their attention to Gwen, who was slowly floating over towards the center of the room. Jamie had gotten up and faces the Boogeyman's daughter. "EVIL WITCH! YOU'VE KILLED THEM!" Gwen smirks at Jamie's anger.

"Yes! I did it! I wanted to make you suffer; Jack Frost will now watch as his little brother dies, and I'll avenge my parent's death!" And with that, Gwen fires more nightmare sand towards Jamie. The sand had some electrifying shocks to it, making some nightmares hit Jamie even more, making him grunt in pain.

After several more hits, Jamie slowly drops onto his knees- his back facing Gwen.

"...Prepare-to-die.." Gwen says breathlessly, holding her hands up, about to create one last dark fire to kill him.

Jack's eyes widen, along with the others'. "JAMIE, NO!" Jack yells.

Jamie's eyes begin to glare angrily as he looks at the wall in front of him. He began to think of his family, his little sister. It was all destroyed by Pitch's daughter; she needed to pay!

"No! I will not prepare to die," Jamie gets up and faces Gwen, looking up at her with a look that read: Shit's about to get serious!

"It is you who better prepare to die! I've done nothing wrong, and yet you've taken my parent's lives!" Jamie had gotten into a fight position.

Gwen chuckled evily before saying, "Bring it!"

Jamie began to fire many ice shards at her, but they all were destroyed when Gwen had shattered them with her dark-fire, and started to create some nightmares to go after Jamie. The nightmares started to go around him, making Jamie starting to feel a little weird.

"What?...what is this?" He'd asked, almost loosing his balance.

"Can you feel it, Jamie?" Taunted Gwen. "Can you feel your worst fears coming to life? The death of your parents! Your little sisters, Sophie, being taken away by the cops to her godparents' house while she kicks and screams! Your new older brother about to watch you die, before he dies?! Oh...such a shame that you'll never see the day light again..." The nightmares were making figures out of everything that she'd just taunted at him.

Which every form a nightmare has taken, the more scared and weaker Jamie has become. But wait! He'd then realized that she's only trying to get to him- this was all fake! Sure, this stuff was all real, but she's just trying to scare him the same way Pitch has. It wasn't working, and she'll soon face her worst fears herself.

"This isn't working, Gwen!" Jamie warned her, pushing his hands against his head, trying to shake her words out of him.

"What's wrong, little Frost? You can't take it? Well...I'm sure that your parents would be very disappointed in you, Jamie. Just how Jack's gonna be disappointed in you for not giving this your best fight!" Gwen was starting to get on Jamie's last nerves now.

"Jamie..." Said two familiar voices.

The boy's eyes widen. "Mom...Dad?!"

"You've failed to save us, Jamie. You've failed at everything. All you've ever done was believing in the guardians, but never really took any other paths in life..."

Jamie was starting to feel hurt. Why was Gwen trying to get him to break-out right now? She's only trying to make him weak; and right now...she's only making him stronger and angrier because of her cruel pranks. The fool.

"This isn't real, this isn't real, this isn't real..." Repeated Jamie over-and-over again, covering his ears harder, and tightening his eyes shut even more.

"Oh, it's real, Jamie. And you're no longer our son. Sophie was always better than you, cuter than you, more interesting than you..."

"STOP IT!" Jamie snapped, creating a large explosion of ice, destroying the darkness around him.

Jamie turned to look at Gwen dead in the eyes. His eyes were glowing blue, and he looked very mad. Gwen was staring at him with complete amusement.

"Hm...percipient little schmuck, aren't you?"

Jamie didn't waist anymore time. He attacked again.

Gwen disappeared, and then Jack yells, "Don't fight her, Jamie! I've got an idea! She lost her family too! Maybe, if you treat her carefully, and try to get her to snap out of her rage, this will all end!"

"Why can't you do it?!"

Jack and the others just looks at him with very stern looks. "Hello! We're too weak!" Bunnymund exclaimed.

Tooth gasped, "Look out, Jamie!"

Jamie turned around, and some more dark-fire hits him, causing him to collapse on the ground again with even more pain. Gwen only laughs at the sight, and appears above him.

"Pathetic...little...prat...do you actually think that you have a chance against me?!"

What Gwen's been saying might be true: Jamie doesn't stand a chance against her by fighting physically. Maybe he'll just have to do what Jack said: Fight her emotionally.

Dusting himself off, Jamie gets up and turns around, feeling nervous about all of this. "I'll give you one last chance...let us all go, and just surrender."

"And what will you do if I don't, you little bastard?" (A/N: Reference to Tim Burton's, "Dark Shadows"! XD)

Jamie grinned at her. "I won't to anything..."

Suddenly, Gwen lowered her hands and looks at him with a confused look. "What? You're not gonna fight?"

Jamie nodded his head and crossed his arms.

"I'm only not gonna fight you, because I'm not scared of anything you'll try to throw at me. You've lost your family, and you've killed mine. And for what? Feeling like you're someone? Because you're not, Gwen!"

Gwen started to get furious with him; she'd held up her arms and attacked him more with some nightmare sand, causing him to collapse and grunt with pain the more she attacked him. The others watch as this was going on, especially Jack. All of this- watching Jamie suffer- is making Jack feel sick to his stomach.

Jamie screamed with some more pain, and finally, Gwen had stopped, and Jamie was catching his breath.

"Never speak of them!" Gwen hissed. "I'm not talking about my parents, or the reason why I've killed yours! NOW LEAVE ME ALONE!" She fired some more dark-fire at him, and Jamie froze them.

Gwen looked at him with shock, and attacked more; but Jamie was as fast as she was, and dodged all of her attacks, only to fire some of his own against her fire and nightmares.

"I won't leave you alone!" Snapped Jamie. "Your father, Pitch, was evil! He caused many terrifying threats towards people- mostly the children!" The more he'd talked to her, the more he'd glared at her. Jamie was thinking he was making progress with her, by making her snap before she makes him snap. Like a twig.

"No! I'm nothing like him!" Gwen scolded.

"Yes you are!" Taunted Jamie.

"No I'm not!"

To Jamie, it seemed like she was close to sob- right there. Progress.

"You're a bully!"

"NO-I'M-NOT!"

Gwen then formed a large dark cloud again, casing it to fire many nightmares, fire, and anything else she'd had up her sleeve. Jamie was attacking each-and-every one the nightmare creatures, but Gwen had stopped him and shot a good aim of a flame at him, making him fly towards the far end of the room.

"I'LL MAKE YOU SUFFER!" Gwen shouted at him, starting to attack him more and more.

"You'll only suffer more, if you keep hurting others!" Jamie said; he's gotten up and flown towards the other side of the room, and blasted an ice ray at her.

Gwen screamed, and crashed into the ground.

Jamie gasped. Did he just hurt her? That bad? He flown down to the ground to see that she wasn't anywhere; he'd wondered if he won. But no, he looked up to see a swirling dark cloud, chanting, ...LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA...

Jamie gulped a little, and the cloud fired more nightmare dust at him, but Jamie was beginning to freeze the cloud.

"If you fight it, it'll only make it worst!" Screamed Gwen, appearing through the dark cloud.

Without hesitating, Jamie attacked more. Gwen snickered venomously, before making the dark sand to crash into the ground, creating a dark tornado form in the middle of the whole area. Objects and anything else was picked up by the winds, and was swirling around the twister. The guardians scream and grab onto a column, preventing them from heading straight into the storm.

Gwen slowly comes out of the cloud, glaring angrily down at Jamie and watches as he struggles to keep himself from entering the twister. Jamie grabs hold of something as well and looks up at her.

"You've lost your family, but that doesn't mean you need to cause the same thing to others! You just want everyone else to hurt, just as much as you are!"

"NO! THAT'S NOT TRUE!"

"Yes it is, Gwen! I haven't done anything to you! Why attack my family?!" Right now, those memories of his family had started to make his eyes water a little, but shrugs it off before anyone notices.

"The other guardians' families are long gone! You and Jack Frost are like family, so I wanted to get you two into an actual family, and destroy it! Just like hoe all of you destroyed mine!" Gwen began to sniff a little, but just like Jamie, she shrugged it off.

"Then you do want others to hurt!" Jamie pointed out, swore he saw her tear.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Shouted Gwen, making the twister's winds stronger, and everyone was finally flying towards it.

Jamie gulped and let go of the column. He knew what had to be done, so that she can feel loved again. He'd flown over towards her and took her hands.

"No- No I won't!" He protested.

"KEEP AWAY FROM ME- JUST LEAVE ME BE!" Gwen shouted threw all of her ever-lasting anger and grief that she was having towards him.

Then he did something truly unexpected. He'd gently pressed his lips onto hers, and the storm exploded. Everything was now stopped; to everyone- it seemed like the world, space and time, had stopped and frozen right there. What Jamie had done was unexpected, and indeed, remarkable. But it was all worth it.

Jamie had stopped her. Gwen had found some peace.

It was finally over.

So...what did you guys think of this? ;)

I'm no good with fight scenes, so cut me some slack! lolz

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